Trends in incidence and mortality of tuberculosis in India over past three decades: a joinpoint and age-period-cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tuberculosis, as a communicable disease, is an ongoing global epidemic that accounts for high burden of global mortality and morbidity. Globally, with an estimated 10 million new cases and around 1.4 million deaths, TB has emerged as one of the top 10 causes of morbidity and mortality in 2019. Worst hit 8 countries account for two thirds of the new TB cases in 2019, with India leading the count. Despite India's engagement in various TB control activities since its first recognition through the resolution passed in the All-India Sanitary Conference in 1912 and launch of first National Tuberculosis Control Programme in 1962, it has remained a major public health challenge to overcome. To accelerate progress towards the goal of ending TB by 2025, 5 years ahead of the global

SUBMITTER: Dhamnetiya D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8597252 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature